Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-03-12
SAN FRANCISCO AND VICINITY

Captain James, the well-known capital
| ist, is seriously III at his residence in Yves
| Oakland.
Police Judge Lawler has decided tha
''cappersi' for mock auctions cannot be ar
rested as Migrants.
! G. A. Loomis, charged with an assault to
murder Joseph MeClintock in the Rus
| House in 1885, has been acquitted.
J. J. 0'Brien, charged with completely
with John S. Gray in the harbor frauds O.
1882, is again on trial, for the fourth time
DR.. Stollard, of the Mierescopical Society
announces that he has found tubercles in 8
chicken. He thinks tuberculosis a com.
mon disease among fowls.
Sheriff A. c. MeCloud, of San Luis Obs.
pc county arrested William Williams in
this city on a charge of having stolen q
team. from a Mr.. Crawford of San Luis
Obispo.
Charles Lux, of the firm Of Miller &
Lux. who has been dangerously i'll for sew
eral days with pneumonia, and whose life
was despalred of on Monday and Tuesday
is better.
There are now 10000 gallons of cherry
juice bonded in a warehouse, which no
owner dares TO step forward and claim,
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adulteration.
A. P. Connor, laborer, while engaged
in piling logs of wood in the basement OF
SWANS bakery on Market street, dropped
dead, presumably from heart disease. The
body was removed to the morgue.
In the case of ]. 7. Noonan against the
5ltter County Land Company an action
for the recovery of S20,770 for constructing
e. 4 L., O,,&.
Judge Sullivan has decided Tor the defend
ants.
District Attorney Stonehill has fled an
information against DR." James Hodges
who exploded bomb in the Grand opera
house. In the information Hodges is
charged with felony and an attempt to
commit murder.
a marriage license was issued by the
County Clerk of Alameda on behalf OF
Miss JeffIeys Lewis and Harry Mainhall,
the actor. As soon as the marriage cere-
mony is performed the couple viii start on
starring tour through Montana.
John O'Brien was held to answer. with
bail fixed at 81 Geo, on a charge OF man
slaughter. He threw scale weight at Jer-
Guilty over a tailor's bill. Johnson was
badly hurt, and has since died.
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington is reported to have made ruling
that all seized opium containing less than
instead of being sold for the benefit of the
officers making the seizure, as heretofore.
While searching for opium on the Gaelic,
which arrived from China few days ago,
the Custom house Inspectors were rewarded
ht-f1
in the wainscotipg of one of the toilet
rooms. The seizure amounted to about
$500.
The local agents of the Eastern railroad
lines have retained an attorney and will
contest the legality of the ordinance re-
quiring them TO pay a quarterly license.
The Supreme Court of the United States
has decided that such tax is unconstitu-
tional. Each agent here is taxed 500 a
year, and the street drummers pay a IL
cense Of SO quarter.
A meteorological society has been estab-
lished on the grounds of the State Uni
versity, at Berkeley. IN connection with the
observatory on the hill north of the North
Hall building. 1t is in charge of Professor
Frank Soule. OF the Department of Astron-
omy. Daily barometical and thermomet-
ical records, as well as those of weather,
relative humidity and precipitation, are
kept.
Judge Gibson has rendered verbal de-
cIsion in the Todd will case. He was salts
fed that the will presented for probate was
never signed by ]. NJ. Todd, and thought
that the attempt to have it probated was
bold, laundering crime. The attempt had
not even been conducted with any degree of
shrewdness. 1t was his judgment that the
will presented for probate was not the will
of John NJ Todd and that the allegations
filed by the contestant were true. The will
was refused probate.
John ]. Eads, in the employ of the
Merchants Exchange as a marine reporter,
was arrested upon charge of assault with
deadly weapon. About IL o'clock on
Wednesday night he shot young boat
man named German on the corner of Ma
son and Vandewater streets. The shot
took effect in the young mans arm, in
ficting flesh wound. In justification of
his act, Eads says he was knocked down
and beaten by crowd of boatmen, and
fired into them in self-defense.